What violent protests in Sichuan? I visited Xinhua, China Daily, and even the Global Times media sites from China and there was nothing at all about this so-called violent protests in Sichuan.

It's like Tiananmen Square in 1989 never happened either when June 4th came...................and went.................without any media in China mentioning this date in Chinese history!

Didn't WSJ know that the mainland just recently passed a new law that forbids any bad news from being printed in China until the transition of power takes place this fall?

1:53 am July 3, 2012

Sichuan Violent wrote:

我是新聞攝影記者，如果您想獲得一手新聞素材，可以與我聯繫，我正在跟蹤報導國內群體事件，包括四川什邡暴動。

I am news photographer, and if you want to get a good news material, can contact me, I are tracking reports domestic group events, including sichuan shifang riots.

3:02 am July 3, 2012

Sifang Violence wrote:

Lots happening, police beat fleeing young girl, pictures on internet show her as single victim lying on ground, surrounded by police and paramilitary. As it's a glimpse into police brutality (and destabilizing-non harmonious behavior by them), it may not be permitted / shown. Presumably, their defense is they reacted to destabilizing behavior by protesters...so if media responds to their destabilizing behavior is considered destabilizing...so hard to keep track..

6:01 am July 3, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

I wonder any protest or any occupy wall street WSJ had broadcast? hypocrite american mainstream media lying every single day american people supporting greedy corporations talking every day another country who have different system of government,, correct your mistake first before you talking country who have different culture and different society.

8:26 am July 3, 2012

pug_ster wrote:

It seems that WSJ propaganda talks about protests in China, they somehow correlates that they are against the government. Of course, in this case it is not, but because of environmental reasons. Some morons decides to damage property and cause a riot and of course, the police put the situation under control.

9:26 am July 3, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

China should import USA pepper spraying police.

10:33 am July 3, 2012

jeff wrote:

It was not that long ago that two people in their own home would not have dared to criticize the brutal Chinese Communist Party and nowadays the cruel CCP is being cursed openly by all. Hopefully, it will not be long before the CCP dissolves and all the people responsible for the millions of atrocities committed by the Party will have to stand trial for their deeds.
The CCP has murdered eighty million of its own people since 1949 and since 1999 has been attempting the heinous genocide of tens of million of innocent Falun Gong practitioners through the use of torture, slavery, organ harvesting and murder. Western governments and media have kept this brutality from their people because of corporate greed, shameful.
Thank you for your consideration.

11:51 am July 3, 2012

Grow up wrote:

@ jeff

Americans have been protesting and demonstrating for months but it did not deter the either the Republican or Democrats President one bit and you make a wish!

There were 255 instances of Delhi asking for web censorship, says Google but did WSJ reported it. But when China makes SEPARATISM a point for censorship, American occupying Texas, Hawaii, Guan, Diego Gracia, etc. makes a whoaha!
You HYPOCRITES are the LAUGHING STOCK of the world today.
Mind you I did not defend anybody merely saying ALL GOVERNMENTS around the world are the same. Power corrupts...

12:04 pm July 3, 2012

in response to pug_ster wrote:

Either you are a "5 mao" poster, getting paid to post pro-China rhetoric online, or you are completely ignorant to the realities of your own country.

12:08 pm July 3, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

我没看到啊

12:30 pm July 3, 2012

SF people wrote:

I come from SiChuan SF,our protest is peaceful and righteous.but the media had wrong report,they describe unture thing . Our government cheat us and our ppolicemen assault us. this is fact!!!!!!!!!!!!

12:31 pm July 3, 2012

jeff is a troll wrote:

And he cut-and-paste his misinformation on forums all over the internet. Just google a single sentence in his posting and it will pop up pages of the same stuff on forums all over the place.
Just ignore him, or follow what I am doing here--reveal who he is and his hateful agenda.

1:09 pm July 3, 2012

Qutok Gonbo wrote:

Crazy......are you concious? What is the link to Falun Gong or Budhist leader? Think before you talk.

1:37 pm July 3, 2012

jiangyou wrote:

I'm used to it.

2:23 pm July 3, 2012

jeff is a troll wrote:

I finally figured out who this Jeff is--he goes by the name of Jeff Forsythe and is a professed Falun Gong nuts.
Check out all the comments he posted on HuffPost:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Jeff_Forsythe?action=comments
Out of the 270+ postings he has posted on HuffPost, there are only 2 flavors. One is hateful misinformation piece on China, the other is how lucky he is to be of a Falun Gong practitioner.
He's like a robot making rounds cut-and-paste his 2 comments on forums all over the internet and never bother to reply any comment other readers posted on his.
Scary what a cult can do to a person--it's like making him a zombie.

2:26 pm July 3, 2012

denise05 wrote:

it's not simply the protest about a molybdenum copper plant.

3:14 pm July 3, 2012

@in response to pug_ster wrote:

Or he simply has a different opinion than you do. Look into it sometime, it will blow your mind.

As a Chinese I want to say,
I love my homeland and I care for my family.
BUT,
Fk the corrupted officials whose job are nothing but collecting money from people, banging different women at their will, eating and drinking all day long, or even sharing the same prostitute.

Fk the damaged environment. We're living in polluted water, air and food all the time. There is hardly someplace so heavily polluted as China. People is living in pollution and getting cancer all day.

Fk the degenerated social morality. There is no morality any more. People are killing each other for survival, power and wealth. They do not care morality any more because the society has lost it, people just want to survive on.

It is China, the lost China. I hope there will be a revolution soon to get rid of the current authority, or I hope I can get out of this place.

--Do not get political. I just want to live and care my family.

3:49 pm July 3, 2012

Shifang I love you wrote:

什邡，是我的家乡，我爱她。
I love my homeland and I care for my family.
It is China, the lost China. I hope there will be a revolution soon to get rid of the current authority, or I hope I can get out of this place.

3:57 pm July 3, 2012

dreamcity wrote:

the government do not care his people any more,what they most care is money and rights.where is their responsibility???not exist any more..

4:01 pm July 3, 2012

china wrote:

自由民主万岁！

4:52 pm July 3, 2012

HillVirgil wrote:

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The staggering pollution in China is certainly contributing to a massive loss on productivity. As one US study found "Closing coal-fired power plants can have a direct impact on children s cognitive development and heath.
"Prenatal exposure to coal-burning emissions was associated with significantly lower average developmental scores and reduced motor development age two. In the second unexposed group, these adverse effects were no longer observed; and the frequency of delayed motor was significantly reduced".

Scary stuff indeed. They are going to have to get this under control, the future of the country depends on it.

6:04 pm July 3, 2012

Anon wrote:

50 percent of water in China may be unsafe to drink.

Hangzhou daily's Metro Bulletin said that groundwater in China may have over overly high levels of fluorine, arsenic , iron and manganese impurities and have of the country's existing iron piping is deficient.

It saddens me to see the wanton greed and corruption one reads about each and every day in China. The China that I have come to know for more than a decade. The people who struggle every day to look after themselves and their famlies. Educated, caring, sincere and honest people. Usually with a friendly smile, prepared to help those in need, demonstrations of kindness from complete strangers I have seen and experienced daily. They well know that their future is uncertain, that they are locked into a system, that the leadership seems to be heading into a storm. Wanting to steer the ship of state on a less precarious course, but unwilling to loosen the grip on the helm. The "helmsman" held at the point of the gun to keep the ship of state on course. The passengers, always looking toward the lifeboats, unable to get a seat. "Oh Captain, my Captain..." The storm is gathering, the Spring is coming, I wish these good people safe passage.

11:36 pm July 3, 2012

Albert Shuxiang Li wrote:

I was born and grow up in Sichuan. I have first hand observations what's going terrible wrong in environment protections in Sichuan. All the rivers are badly polluted, that includes Yangtze River (Change Jiang) and its tributaries. I used swim in Yangtze and others in my hometown which is by the Yangtze River, but cannot any more. We used to drink the Yangtze River water after sedimentation, but right now anyone who dare to drink it will be sick. It’s very sad to see the beautiful river becomes a dead river. Yangtze River is the third largest river in the world according to its water volume, so you may see how bad it is now. By national statistics, 95% surface waters are heavily polluted. That’s a dire dilemma. People in China are currently paying much higher environmental sacrifice than what they should to sustain some economic gains in their life. I think this kind of practice (sacrifice environment greatly for non-sustainable economic development) will eventually wake-up Chinese people who are seeking better life – better water, better air and better food. Those unrest events allover mainlands China are evidential.

5:29 am July 4, 2012

Robert wrote:

China will collapse one day like the Soviet Union. The communist governments last maximum 70 years. Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia should be ready to take advantage of the coming chaos in China!

We want to tell the world that Chinese people are all sick of this violent corrupted government, we wish somebody could give us some aid, in Shifang, students, women, kids and the olds are badly beaten by the police, who even want to use guns against us, that's how a friendly government broadcasting itself as a peace-loving, party-of-the-people one treats its citizens, early in June 4th,1989, there was a massacre in Tianan Door, we don't want another one in Shifang. We just wanna a silent, clear place to live, is it that hard? And the media in mainland all keep silent, it feels like the end of the world...the police keep beating children, women, students and whoever passes by or whoever donot speak cantonese, there are spies everywhere now....

11:18 am July 6, 2012

mengxiangpu wrote:

强烈呼吁联合国，向四川派遣维和部队！

9:55 pm July 7, 2012

Cleo wrote:

The Mainland will always hurt its own people more than ethnic minority protestors but any protests within the Mainland is going to be treated as a possible outside funded act of terrorism. You see? CIA or Japanese/German pot-stirring will be met with equal force. It's simply how China communicates the message to its citizen to think twice about being a collaborator. After Japan did to us, you would think that no logical Chinese would willing become engaged in even being SUSPECTED of being a collaborator because we should know that this government is WILLING to send its best and brightest into the countryside and to purge its intellectuals simply to CONTROL the avenues and access to public sentiment. You can say that the country's empowered are in it for themselves but frankly, all they need to do is emigrate if they are talented enough to rise to the top and the nation's highest positions are held by talent not cronys like in Japan. So why are they making themselves look bad? Why aren't they pandering to the general public and promoting pretty faces like Bo Xilai's if all they are interested is selfish benefits?

No one gets to create a storm in any teacup in China. That's the message. We just had terrorists on a Xinjiang flight stopped by fellow Chinese citizens. This is about national security. It sucks because the Sichuanese have a good reputation but nobody is sacred or protected from violent law enforcement.

That is where we are now. We can't do anything about it. We don't have to like it. Is China ready for a fake democratically elected leader like the POTUSes?

I don't think so. Until then, you can expect China to look like an ugly dictator who doesn't respond to unfair accusations that it doesn't care about its citizens or like foreigners. China doesn't like GOBLINS.

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